Death By Theft: A Josiah Reynolds Mystery
by Abigail Keam
About Death by Theft
Death By Theft: A Josiah Reynolds Mystery
Cozy Mystery
19th in Series
Setting – Kentucky
Worker Bee Press (October 30, 2023)
Number of Pages ~200
ASIN : B0BVJSY15M
Josiah is happy for her pals Lady Elsmere and Shaneika Mary Todd when broodmare Jean Harlow gives birth to a male foal sired by Comanche. The owners of both horses have high hopes the foal will become a stakes winner—maybe even win the Kentucky Derby. The foal has a broad chest, indicating significant lung capacity—important for winning races, but just like his daddy, the foal is ebony with a bad attitude.
Josiah and Shaneika visit dam Jean Harlow early one morning and are shocked to find the prized foal is missing. They frantically search Lady Elsmere’s and Josiah’s farms without success. It’s urgent they find the foal fast as he is not yet weaned and is too young to be separated from his mother. Who would snatch the feisty foal from his mother’s care? And equally important, why?
Death By A HoneyBee
Death By Drowning
Death By Bridle
Death By Bourbon
Death By Lotto
Death by Chocolate
Death by Haunting
Death By Derby
Death By Design
Death By Malice
Death By Drama
Death By Stalking
Death By Deceit
Death By Magic
Death By Shock
Death By Chance
Death By Poison
Death By Greed
Death By Theft
CHARACTER INTERVIEW
What are the 4 qualities of a good character?
That’s simple—likability, flaws, action, and depth. A reader must like the character, accept their flaws, follow them to a conclusion, and admire their depth. If the character is simple, one-dimensional, and does not act to cement her own interests, then the reader loses interest.
How do you feel about your life right now?
My name is Josiah Reynolds. I am a beekeeper and sell honey at a farmers’ market on the weekends. I also house horses for people on my farm. I live in the Bluegrass where the Thoroughbred is king, people drink bourbon like soda pop, and grits are eaten for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I live in the Butterfly, a mid-century marvel that I designed on a farm located in the middle of horse country.
I also collect trouble. Let me explain.
I am okay at the moment, but the last five years have been a hardship. My husband left me for a much younger woman. That happens, but he took my share of assets and left me broke. Then I found a dead man bowled over in one of my hives. That’s when Detective Fred O’Nan went rogue and pulled me over a hundred foot cliff during a hissy fit. I hit a ledge forty feet down. He fell into the Kentucky River. It took over a year of surgeries and PT to get me back to the land of the living. Since then I’ve stumbled over eighteen more bodies and have become something of a celebrity in The Bluegrass of solving mysteries. Some say I’m a witch. I think I’m good at solving puzzles.
At the moment, I am trying to help my friends, Lady Elsmere and Shaneika Mary Todd, find their kidnapped foal named Last Chance. It was their hope that Last Chance run in the Kentucky Derby and contend for the Triple Crown. We came up empty, so I call my daughter Asa. How should I say this? Asa has a propensity for violence. Enough said.
What, if anything, would you like to change?
I wish my daughter had married her high school sweetheart and had a family instead of globetrotting the world, doing God’s knows what.
I wish I could have saved my marriage.
I wish I could find this missing foal so Lady Elsmere and Miss Shaneika can fulfill their dreams of having a Kentucky Derby winner.
What do you consider the most important event of your life so far?
I would rather look forward, instead of looking back at my life. It’s too painful. At the moment, I’m happy. I just wish dead bodies quit popping up quite so frequently.
About Abigail Keam
Abigail Keam is an award-winning and Amazon best-selling author who writes the Josiah Reynolds Mystery Series about a Southern beekeeper turned amateur female sleuth. Besides loving history, Kentucky bourbon, and chocolate, Abigail loves honeybees and for many years made her living by selling honey at a farmers’ market like her protagonist, Josiah Reynolds. She is an award-winning beekeeper who has won many honey awards at the Kentucky State Fair including the Barbara Horn Award, which is given to beekeepers who rate a perfect 100 in a honey competition.
Miss Abigail has taken her knowledge of beekeeping to create a fictional beekeeping protagonist, Josiah Reynolds, who solves mysteries in the Bluegrass. While Miss Abigail’s novels are for enjoyment, she discusses the importance of a local sustainable food economy and land management for honeybees and other creatures.
She currently lives on the Kentucky River in a metal house with her husband and various critters. She still has honeybees.
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AWARDS
2010 Gold Medal Award from Readers’ Favorite for Death By A HoneyBee
2011 Gold Medal Award from Readers’ Favorite for Death By Drowning
2011 USA BOOK NEWS-Best Books List of 2011 as a Finalist for Death By Drowning
2011 USA BOOK NEWS-Best Books List of 2011 as a Finalist for Death By A HoneyBee
2017 Finalist from Readers’ Favorite for Death By Design
2019 Honorable Mention from Readers’ Favorite for Death By Stalking
2019 Top 10 Mystery Novels from Kings River Life Magazine for Murder Under A Blue Moon2
2019 Honorable Mention from Readers’ Favorite for Death By Stalking: A Josiah Reynolds Mystery
2019 Top 10 Mystery Novels from Kings River Life Magazine for Murder Under A Blue Moon: A 1930s Mona Moon Mystery
2020 Imadjinn Award for Best Mystery – Death By Stalking: A Josiah Reynolds Mystery
2022 Finalist in Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Finalist for Best Historical Category – Murder Under A Full Moon
2022 Finalist for the Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award for Best Historical Category – Murder Under A New Moon
2022 Death By Chance: A Josiah Reynolds Mystery Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Finalist for Best Cozy Mystery
2022 Top Ten Mystery Novel by Kings River Life Magazine for Murder Under A Bridal Moon: A 1930s Mona Moon Mystery
2022 Top Ten Mystery Novel by Kings River Life Magazine for Murder Under A British Moon: A 1930s Mona Moon Mystery
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